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I've been reading Full Metal Panic: Sigma, while watching The Second Raid alongside it. It's interesting, considering it has some differences from the anime. Some for good, others for worse. I prefer the Anime, but the Manga is good too.

The other two manga I've been following, The Lies of Sheriff Evans: Dead or Love and Shibuya Near Family are both still fun.

Anime:

I've recently watched Gundam 00 - I wrote more about that here.

Tokimeki Tonight is still a fun show when it comes to the wacky comedy and artsy backgrounds.

Ranma 1/2 (1989) - Rumiko Takahashi's writing is consistently entertaining, and over a dozen episodes in, it keeps delivering. Will the show be able to keep up? I hope so!

Another entertaining show is You're Under Arrest!. Is it copaganda? Yes. Has a certain aspect of the show aged poorly? Also yes. What the show excels in, are the villains of the week. Strike Man will be living in my head rent free for a bit, I suppose.

Dragon Ball Z is peak, over 60 episodes in.

**Western Animation & Live Action **

I'm still watching Gravity Falls, and it's good, if formulaic. Apparently people dislike Mabel and like Dipper? Because so far it's the exact opposite for me lol.

Also, I started Andor. I like it so far, but it's clearly still cooking at this stage.

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seeing this made me just break down crying. if you'd asked me yesterday what i thought of akira toriyama i would have probably said i respected him immensely, but his work didn't hold a special place in my heart. but realizing that he's gone is just devastating. such an iconic, important artist. the world is worse without him

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10/10 - the throughline of cicada sounds throughout was probably one of my favorite details, especially that it ended up being somewhat significant plot wise.

Only a few episodes into the anime, so I’m interested to see how it compares.

I used site if anyone’s interested: https://ww2.mangafreak.me/Read1_Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_1

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IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Blorptube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, we are beginning the classic Gainax series Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990), covering episodes 13 through 18. Join a rag-tag group of unlikely heroes on a steampunk adventure to find and save the lost city of Atlantis from an diabolical organization determined to rule the world. Stargate (1994) and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) pretty much ripped this series off. Oh yeah, and did I mention that Hayao Miyazaki wrote it, and Hideaki Anno was involved, too?

After that is Heart and Yummie (2010), an anime feature film about a vegetarian tyrannosauru rex raised by herbivores. Upon running away from home, he discovers an orphaned baby ankylosaurus, and decides to be his adoptive parent. Uh-oh, he starts feeling his carnist urges to eat the baby. Will he be able to resist his animal nature? I guess we’ll find out. Think The Land Before Time (1988), but anime, and with a cuter aesthetic. Director Masaya Fujimori has not made any other original films, but he did apparently work on the Fairy Tail franchise. Great reviews for this, so let’s check it out.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Blorptube, right here:

https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

Doesthedogdie.com links:

CWs for Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water:

  • Voyeurism.
  • Objectification of female characters.
  • Nudity.
  • Sexualization of minor.
  • Bath scenes.
  • Gun violence.
  • Child abuse.
  • Child endangerment.
  • Explosions.
  • Cruelty to animals.
  • Electrocution.
  • Rude gestures.
  • Plane crash.
  • Animal corpses.
  • Suffocation.
  • Nuclear explosion.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Alcohol.
  • Smoking.

CWs for Heart and Yummie:

  • Carnism.
  • Child endangerment.
  • Child abandonment.
  • Slapstick violence.
  • Eye injury.
  • Deaths of parents.

Links to movies:

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OH SHIT OH FUCK enel-wtf

What did you think of this week's chapter?

No break next week! luffy-pog

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The show offers you a disapproving commentary on the War on Terror, liberal technocratic fantasies, and even accidentally recognizes that the bourgeois state itself is one of the biggest obstacles in the liberal one world fantasies that were popular at the time this show aired.

And predictably retreats into hope and despair that this is all caused by a lack of good morals on the part of the rulers. Because if you did that, you'd get something oddly similar to the backstory of Star Trek... and now, but nicer. Literally nothing changes, but it feels good!

Light of the world, shine on me! Love is the Answer! - as always.

And good lord there is a lot of love. This show goes really overboard on the romance melodrama in season 2. Without giving one to the MC, despite the obvious candidate of Princess Marina Ismail. Guess he can't be the man, the legend, Colasour the Indestructible.

Season 1 was the strongest, when it was about geopolitical blocs trying to crush an insurgency that happened to be the main characters of the show. Season 2 retreated hard into totally not newtype mysticism - as can be expected from Gundam really... I need to rewatch After War Gundam X.

What this show was really strong in were the visuals, especially in Season 1, and the music. The soundtrack is composed by Kenji Kawai, and featuring excellent OP and ED themes. Such as the OP2, sung by Tomoko Kawase - one of the Japanese artists I consistently get impressed by - plus Pulse by the Back Horn (containing ED1) is a really good album.

As close as this show was to jumping the shark, it never really did (in the movie? I haven't watched it yet, but thanks to Super Robot Wars I know what it's about lol). The show is just very, very competently made. At the very end of Mecha's presence as a TV anime staple.

Is this show good? Yeah.

Does it have good politics? They're very lib lol, though much more interesting than I expected.

What is this show really? Full Metal Panic, but without the comedy + Gundam Wing

Bonus: A random comment I found on r/gundam

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Hooboy another build-up episode- first half is the remaining 0079 era bits from the movie with Char trying to kill Kycilia with a big asteroid provided by the Federation (the more things change, the more things stay the same it seems). There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it freeze frame of Lalah stopping Char from shooting Sayla in Newtype space just before the Axis Shock/Zeknova happens that I didn't catch in the movie, but it's here in the show.

Overall I'd say this entire sequence felt better with the movies chronology, since it set up the big mystery of this timeline (what happened to Char?) and highlighted the danger of the Zeknova. I guess this was as good a place as any to put this tho, because we really couldn't continue the back half here without this context.

I'm not going to get too deep into the back half- a lot happens here. (And a distracting amount of Eva references.) But I do want to highlight a smaller character scene/detail that's only possible because we're playing in a franchise with 46 years of material-

Nyaan is a refugee from Side 2. Side 2 was the colony that Zeon gassed and then dropped on the Earth, the event that kicks off the One Year War.

That dinner scene between her and Kycillia would be like if George Bush gave a home cooked meal to an Iraqi kid, promising asylum and college entry if they just signed up for the US Military to test their latest weapon systems.

The entire back half, Nyaan has a deep-seated sadness within her, almost like her soul is being weighed down by gravity.

Oh shit is that my favourite Gulp Shitto, Quattro Bajeena!?

(Have some Kycillia Obaa-chan cute fanart.)

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You can check those posts for discussions and glosses of other anime, which might help you decipher these. Like the previous two parts, the plot descriptions here are based on those from Anilist, so consider using that site for reference; you can also use things like title structure, character names, and occasional numerals to help you figure things out.

Last time, only one of the three anime were deciphered, so I will reprint the two unsolved ones with glosses of the "solved words" now.

Unsolved from the previous post

Hay Hiḱey to yaRoyčoḱiya!Pe-1-e A. M***ŕe {ňa|TOPIC} anime-dećti {:|are} {kyertiv|loved-things-CONS} {xaíde|bigger} lo {še|she} {na|on} dećte {ňa|TOPIC} "sule {:|is} buhe" čay. Suliv daŕi to {yeruňevše|her-head} {ko|to} {yecigempoĺevše,|her-____-book,} no {še|she} {la|yet} {nay|not} {nat́e|made} {yekoḱev|the-move-CONS} {anske|first} hiḱev anime-dećte, {na|on} {fe|that} {šo|that} {še|she} {ňa|TOPIC} dećte {dum|as} aniḱe {nay|not} {može|a-possibility} čay. {Rine|A-friend} K. S****é {ňa|TOPIC} {ariḱe|a-girl} {so|with} {yerokev|the-mind-CONS} roynasinćke {:|is} yénske, {šo|that} nat́e zede {na|on} yeydrestev M***ŕe. Ńesint́ev hazoske, {šo|that} sokruňeynevńe, yesnij́iḱev biśe {so|with} M. C****ye {iḿej́eske|named} {ňa|TOPIC} hoževše xaye {:|is} dećke {he,|TEMP,} ńehke čoḱiya {na|on} dećte va pset́e "{yalanav|the-world-CONS} lobuha" to {yerokivńe.|their-minds.}

YaVaňgleynav BuhčonskaYaceyv vaňgla {ňa|TOPIC} {keyn|somebody} udet́e {he,|TEMP,} noževše {u|also} dent́e {bone|a-thing} {so|with} ogestev ranske čay. Yažalav vaňgla {ňa|TOPIC} dot́e {bone|a-thing} {ko|to} randogiyey {so|with} {šo|that} moḱiḱe {še|it} {dum|as} {bonev|a-thing-CONS} {gune.|other.} Yaceyv vaňgla {ruňet́ey|rules} {yežalevfe,|this-____} no {može|a-possibility} pet́ede lo yaceyvfey {so|with} {bonev|a-thing} {so|with} "yeKődev yeTruňeyne" {iḿej́eske.|named.} Jaḱav {so|with} E. E****a {iḿej́eska|named} {ňa|TOPIC} si žari {he|TEMP} vaňgleynav marka dent́av ŕusulska bene {so|with} yatǒvša {so|with} A*****a {iḿej́eska.|named.} E****a {so|with} vaňgla ŕaza {u|and} hira va sot́a yarǒv yatǒvša {na|on} čoniya. {So|With} {šo,|that,} yavaňgleyneyv 2 {kot́a|went} yőravńa va udet́a yaboneyvńa {anskey,|original,} {u|and} yeKődev yeTruňeyne to yaradaxey.

A few hints

Deciphering character namesThe lengths of names may be of use but don't expect them to perfectly match their lengths in Hepburn/English. Likewise initials might not always match the Hepburn.

Names are inflected with a masculine suffix -a and a feminine suffix -e, but to prevent hiatus these go through the following sound changes:

① {a(ː).V → Vː|V = any vowel} — as in *Sakura-eSakuré

② {O(ː).V → ø(ː)|O = round vowel} — as in *Tomoyo-eTomoyǒ, or *Kló-aKlő

③ {E(ː).V → jV(ː)|E = unrounded front vowel} — as in *Miyuki-aMiyukya

The sound change for front vowels may trigger further sound changes:

{Tj → TT|T = alveolar consonant} — but note that alveolar geminates are realized as palatals

ji(ː) → iː

In that order.

Note however that proper nouns occasionally do not refer to characters, in which case the gender the name is inflected as may not be of much use to you.

Other revelations about the grammar and word derivationIt has by this point been cracked or revealed that...

  1. -t́ forms verbs and -ćk forms active participles.
  2. to is a preposition, but its exact meaning has not yet been revealed.
  3. -v is a suffix used to form the construct state. This means that the following word modifies or possesses the previous.
  4. The root ruň means "head"; it is the root in yeTruňeyne and sokruňeynevńe.

With that out of the way, let's get into the new titles to translate! Please spoiler your guesses.

~~1: YeĆapeyniv Ňátaňski~~

~~U. H****ő ňa pe-2-a so huynav tmocka ušat́ade korobev xaynanske na dohe dum pedećka... No yakruňeyneyvša ňa ariḱi so yayavša kruňta mpe! So šo, ńe : ňátaňdri... u yériḱiv 5 buhi ňa leňi — no ńe na može u kruňnǒni, šo uńet́ide teney na yebzev haymožej́este! Kože, šo yadogav anska yayḱav H****ő ňa siňet́a yeýerev yetǒy?! Yaspinav buha ňa uŕav graymej́eska na yakye-havfa so yetǒyv ňátaňski yǒynev N****ǒ dum yaňavša!~~

~~2: Spinzine~~

~~Yénime-dećte "Spinzine" ňa rámat́ev suske yejájév yespinzinev yeriniv 3 to draste — PKE-i N. M*ǒ, A. Y**ǒ, u M. M*ye — šo xampet́ev śeske yéxivńe so yáxeyv huyna Ś******ya: yedredre "H***śe", yedumaŕe N**ǒ yepedeynevše, u yeńevńe sulske štraske S******ǒ. Spinav buha he, yeziniv yéynivfi 6 so yeziniv yéyniv ňeni yerefarevńe ňa u yelanev zinev crske u eranstev tayze. Kot́i kruňuyne čay, kanet́ide tusun̋ǒv sulske čay, so rini bubut́i čay, so šo sint́i yakruňruňa pesiret́a gode čay suli ňa hiḱav spinav ana va yeziniv no crey yežuňiv yénime-dećte "Spinzine".~~

3: ROḰAV SVITA

Kav anskagunska he, ariḱiv 5 ńehke dećte so bubǒv xayede lo ńeklit́e óre va hiḱe na dećte, va, ka he, moževńe šehkev moḱske dećte, yéne so yegune. Fe xi žariv 2 he, A*ye, Ś****é, E*é, M**é, u M***ŕe ňa, yepsev yedoňiyev dećte ko yeruňivńe ňa: hiḱe nay u he bubǒ, hiḱe nay yohkske žo u žo, so šo vure nay u he vure va bant́e nódi.

Na šo, A*ye ňa yeyḱevše dum roypedeyne kliňket́i še, Ś****é ňa kliňkećke koto ňenbeni, M***ŕe ňa ran poĺa, M**é ňa sǒnt́e u šehkede remeynev SR-e, so šo E*é ňa menremeyne so spindogev bőśke. Yezinivńe dum yeĺenivńe kay? Nay! No ńenamožet́e na zídet́e svite kay? Nay la! Dećte ňa boni fat́ede he u he, fat́evde braškede lo buhe!

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IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Blorptube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, we are beginning the classic Gainax series Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990), covering episodes 7 through 12. Join a rag-tag group of unlikely heroes on a steampunk adventure to find and save the lost city of Atlantis from an diabolical organization determined to rule the world. Stargate (1994) and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) pretty much ripped this series off. Oh yeah, and did I mention that Hayao Miyazaki wrote it, and Hideaki Anno was involved, too?

After that is James and the Giant Peach (1996), a stop-motion animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel of the same name, from The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and Coraline (2009) director Henry Selic. A young orphan boy escapes his wicked aunts by going on a voyage to New York inside a giant peach filled with giant sentient bugs. Pretty awesome aesthetic in this one, so let’s check it out.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Blorptube, right here:

https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

Doesthedogdie.com links:

CWs for Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water:

  • Voyeurism.
  • Objectification of female characters.
  • Nudity.
  • Sexualization of minor.
  • Bath scenes.
  • Gun violence.
  • Child abuse.
  • Child endangerment.
  • Explosions.
  • Cruelty to animals.
  • Electrocution.
  • Rude gestures.
  • Plane crash.
  • Animal corpses.
  • Suffocation.
  • Nuclear explosion.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Alcohol.
  • Smoking.

CWs for James and the Giant Peach:

  • Child abuse.
  • Spiders.
  • Bugs.
  • Torture.
  • Someone falls down stairs.
  • Deaths of parents.
  • Destruction of child’s toy.
  • Spitting.
  • Copaganda.
  • Claustrophobia.
  • Broken fourth wall.
  • Fat jokes.
  • Honking horns.
  • Screeching tires.
  • Car crash.

Links to movies:

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